mba February 2007

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by Thomas Eibner

We're still in need of judges for MCAB IX: Judges and Stewards, This is a call for judges and stewards. Please follow the instructions below indicating which sessions you want to judge and if you want to attend the banquet. Competition Date: February 23-24, 2007 Location: The Happy Gnome 498 Selby Avenue St. Paul, MN 55102 Event Schedule: Friday 5:00 PM Gordon Strong - BJCP Grand Master III will be introducing a new score sheet - All registered judges will recieve a link to review this scoresheet prior to event. 5:30 PM Friday judge session begins 8:00 PM Hors Deurves / Snack food served at Happy Gnome after judging (No food served beforehand - so plan appropriately) Saturday 10:00 AM Flavor Aktive Session lead by Kris England - CEP Class 12:00 PM Lunch served for judges 1:00 PM Saturday judge session begins 3:30 PM Best of Show Judging 3:30-7 PM Try some of the 24 taps the Happy Gnome has to offer or take advantage of the generous 15% off discount that Northern Brewer is offering. Possible Talk/QA event. 7:00 PM Dinner and Awards Ceremony (Dinner will cost $25, please request reservation by Friday 2/16 - if enough people do not sign up for the dinner we will just announce the winners and retire to the bar for those that wish to hang around and socialize) Dinner Menu (family style): - Chef's Seasonal Vegetable - Fresh Baked Bread - Mixed Green Salad - Baby Red Potato Hash with Onions and Bell Peppers - Bone-in Chicken with Rosemary Chicken Jus Throughout the event there will be a 'Waters of the World' station. Brewing waters of different regions around the world will be presented along with examples of the associated beer styles. Completion of self administered exam will count towards CEP credit. If you are interested in judging email the organizer and include: Name: BJCP Number: BJCP Rank: Preferred Categories: What Sessions you want to judge Friday 5:00 PM and/or Saturday 1:00 PM: Dinner Reservation for Saturday night: Yes or No Dinner Price: $25 Menu TBA by the 14th. Hotel information for out of town judges: Best Western - Bandana Square 1010 Bandana Boulevard W Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55108-5107, US Phone: 651-647-1637 Fax: 651-647-0244 mailto:curt@sphbc.org Curt Stock & Thomas Eibner

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18 years, 9 months

MHY Update

by Steve Fletty

Standings for the MHY have been updated to reflect this past weekend's contest in Duluth, MN. Can you believe someone on Minnesota's Iron makes saison? I couldn't. <insert joke about lite beer drinking in-laws here> ;-) Anyway, we have several new brewers from 3 different states jumping into the top 10. Results: http://sphbc.org Don't forget the deadline for the next leg of the circuit this weekend for BABBLE: http://babblehomebrewers.com/brewoff/ Drunk Monk is coming up next month: http://www.knaves.org/ With the landscape shifting to Illinois through June, look for some Chicago heavy hitters to start seriously altering the playing field. Seriously. Saison on the Iron Range? Who knew?

18 years, 9 months

MCAB call for judges

by Thomas Eibner

Judges and Stewards, This is a call for judges and stewards. Please follow the instructions below indicating which sessions you want to judge and if you want to attend the banquet. Competition Date: February 23-24, 2007 Location: The Happy Gnome 498 Selby Avenue St. Paul, MN 55102 Event Schedule: Friday 5:00 PM Gordon Strong - BJCP Grand Master III will be introducing a new score sheet - All registered judges will recieve a link to review this scoresheet prior to event. 5:30 PM Friday judge session begins 8:00 PM Hors Deurves / Snack food served at Happy Gnome after judging (No food served beforehand - so plan appropriately) Saturday 10:00 AM Flavor Aktive Session lead by Kris England - CEP Class 12:00 PM Lunch served for judges 1:00 PM Saturday judge session begins 3:30 PM Best of Show Judging 3:30-7 PM Try some of the 24 taps the Happy Gnome has to offer or take advantage of the generous 10% off discount that Northern Brewer is offering. Possible Talk/QA event. 7:00 PM Dinner and Awards Ceremony Throughout the event there will be a 'Waters of the World' station. Brewing waters of different regions around the world will be presented along with examples of the associated beer styles. Completion of self administered exam will count towards CEP credit. If you are interested in judging email the organizer and include: Name: BJCP Number: BJCP Rank: Preferred Categories: What Sessions you want to judge Friday 5:00 PM and/or Saturday 1:00 PM: Dinner Reservation for Saturday night: Yes or No Dinner Price: $25 Menu TBA by the 14th. Hotel information for out of town judges: Best Western - Bandana Square 1010 Bandana Boulevard W Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55108-5107, US Phone: 651-647-1637 Fax: 651-647-0244 mailto:curt@sphbc.org Curt Stock & Thomas Eibner

18 years, 9 months

Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha Results

by alboyce＠comcast.net

Congrats to the Northern Ale Stars for a GREAT inaugural competition! Everyone who attended had a great time, and they judged their 162 entries in a very timely and professional manner. Also congrats to the following MHBA members who garnered 12 of the 51 medals awarded! GOLD - 07.C. Dusseldorf Altbier Cool Alt Eric Biermann GOLD - 10.B. American Amber Ale Alpine Amber Ale Neil Bromenshenkel GOLD - 20.A. Fruit Beer Bronx Cheer Al Boyce GOLD - 25.C. Other Fruit Melomel Plum Crazy David Gobran SILVER - 08.A. Standard/Ordinary Bitter Bitter Lizzy Eric Biermann SILVER - 09.E. Strong Scotch Ale The Bonnie Spar Al Boyce SILVER - 15.A. Weizen/Weissbier Weizenheimer Al Boyce SILVER - 23.A. Specialty Beer Chili Lime Saffron Honey Ale G.L. Exire LaTour BRONZE - 07.B. California Common Beer Petaluma Afternoons Al Boyce And, with a CLEAN SWEEP of ALL medals in the CIDER combined category: GOLD - 27.A. Common Cider Uncommon Cider Chris Smith SILVER - 27.A. Common Cider Cider House Dual Chris Smith BRONZE - 28.D. Other Specialty Cider or Perry Cinnamon Cider Chris Smith - Al Original Message: ----------------- From: Steve Daiken duvelhop(a)yahoo.com Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:59:53 -0800 (PST) To: mnbrewers(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [mnbrewers] Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha Results The results for the Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha homebrew competition held in Duluth this weekend are available at: http://www.northernalestars.org/greatnorthernbrewhaha.html Congratulations to Susan Ruud and Ray Taylor for winning Best of Show with their Old Ale! ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint

18 years, 9 months

third leg of the Midwest Homebrewer of the Year Circuit deadline

by Steve Fletty

18 years, 9 months

Re: is the base beer of flavored malt beverages an ale or a lager

by Ray Daniels

Steve, Your original information is correct: FMBs are not beer. I think your question is akin to asking whether Kraft non-fat cheese slices could be considered cheddar or colby. If you look at the label carefully, you'll find that they aren't even allowed to call it cheese! Same deal here. FMBs are made from a beer base only for tax purposes since the tax on beer is lower than for other bevs. As the product is all about profit and not flavor or culture, you can rest assured that they are produced from whatever sort of fermentation the producing plant can conduct quickly and cheaply. I doubt seriously that there is a common approach to producing the base that would be common to all producers. That said: I believe they carbon filter whatever the base is to remove the color and distinctive flavors anyway, so any consideration of flavor from the original ingredients or fermentation is moot. Personally, I think we all have a vested interest in distancing these things from beer to the greatest extent possible. R Ray Daniels Director of Publications Brewers Association ray(a)brewersassociation.org 773-769-1300 or 312-203-8383 (cell) See www.beertown.org to check out our newest titles: "How to Brew" (Third Edition) by John Palmer and "The Brewers Association's Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery." For subscriptions, single copy and book sales, call 1-888-822-6273. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chicago Beer Society Home Brewer List > [mailto:CBS-HB@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Mastny > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:19 PM > To: CBS-HB(a)LISTSERV.UIC.EDU > Subject: is the base beer of flavored malt beverages an ale or a lager > > > On a whim I've been looking into whether flavored malt beverages > (FMB's) would properly be considered ales or lagers. I > understand from a bit of internet research that this very > question might be offensive to some of the beer drinkers on > this list, since a number of Beer Advocate members seem to > passionately deny that FMB's are beers at all. > > That being said, the base of FMB's is some sort of beer, > brewed to be a flavorless as possible so as to be a sort of > "blank slate" for the flavors that a later added. I would > assume that the beer base is an ale since ales are generally > cheaper to produce (less time in production/storage), but on > the other hand ale yeasts tend to be more flavorful, > hindering the creation of a "blank slate". > > I figure if an hour of internet research on this subject > can't provide a definitive answer, then my only hope at this > point may be the CBS email list, where I probably should have > looked for the answer in the first place. Does anyone have > any input, speculative or otherwise? > > Thanks, > > Steve Mastny >

18 years, 10 months

Growlers for Duluth Brew-Ha-Ha

by Mike Behrendt

I've been asked by the Great Northern Ale Stars to see about getting some growlers from the Twin Cities brew pubs for the Brew-Ha-Ha this weekend. But, I don't have time to solicit the brewpubs for donations and to collect them before Friday. So, it would be great if anyone going to Duluth this weekend could stop by a Twin Cities brewpub and get a growler to bring to Duluth. I'll try to get some cans from Surly and a growler from Town Hall and Barley Johns. I'll get the Wild Brunette from BJ and something cask conditioned from Town Hall. I don't know if the competition has funds to reimburse for this, so consider it your own donation, just make sure you get your growler back at the end. It will help get this new competition off to a great start. Thanks! -- //Mike Behrendt MGBrew(a)comcast.net Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx

18 years, 10 months

Midwest Homebrewer of the Year.

by Steve Fletty

The first standings are up for 2007 with results from the Twin Cities Upper Mississippi Mash-Out. The extremely competitive had 919 entries ans was a real average killer for many brewer. Visit: http://sphbc.org for details. Congratulations to Curt Stock, 2006 Midwest Homebrewer of the Year. Curt won a $100 Norther Brewer gift certificate and a hand-turned wooden mug. We'll get some pics up on the web soonish as well as a signature recipe from Curt. The next leg of the circuit is this weekend in Duluth, MN: http://www.northernalestars.org/ Also, you probably still have time to get beers into the 3rd leg, which takes place on 2/24 in Lincolnshire, IL. http://babblehomebrewers.com/brewoff/ If you think your stats look wrong, please let me know. I've been known to fat-finger the data.

18 years, 10 months

Election results

by Crist, Jonathan

Forwarded from John Longballa: After 4-5 years of great service to the club as treasurer, Jeff Cotton stepped down. Paul Dienhart was elected in Jeff's stead. Paul was also elected as secretary (he was appointed last fall as secretary to finish a term). Now all the membership issues and money will go through one person. Gera Exire LaTour graciously accepted a nomination to be president and is indeed the new club president! I am turning my attention to my little boy and to my school board, where I was recently elected president. Al Boyce stayed on as VP, and Mike Moranz remained as a member-at-large. Thanks to Harvie Holmes for hosting the meeting and presenting the technical topic. John

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